Swimming In A Sea Of Death
A Son's Memoir
$47.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2008
Summary
David Rieff’s loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer.Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff’s loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff’s brave, passionate and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it means to confront death in our culture.David Rieff confronts hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522855449 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052285544X |
| Author: | David Rieff |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
David Rieff
David Rieff is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of seven previous books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun- Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night- Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse- Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City.
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